[Closed] Prosecuted for riding bikes on National Trust land?

Wrexham starts with R.

ninfan & mragreeable - I've discussed the broader access thing with you both before and I kind of agree with you both here.

Yes the population density argument is absolutely a red herring, Scotland's central belt is comparable to much of England & Wales in that regard.

However Scotland got its access reform because there was a political will for it to happen - it fit with the devolved government's progressive approach.

The UK government has recently made it clear that it's not interested in adopting the same model, so an incremental approach may be more fruitful.

The problem then (as pointed out above) is that you lose the beautiful simplicity of the Scottish system and the suitability of different FPs for biking is horrifically subjective.

Per square mile the population density in Scotland is far lower than in the rest of the UK, for a start.

If you're going to compare England and Scotland you need to pretty much ignore the highlands and look at how access works in the central belt where the bulk of the population lives.

Given that clout archery has a significant history (IIRC it's discussed as being the precursor to golf, no?) and would therefore have been an established form of air and exercise at the time, then it undoubtedly falls within the remit of permitted activities, unless additional byelaws/restrictions have been created.

Clout as a form of archery competition has its own history, there was also roaming archery where archers travelling to muster would shoot as they walked with marks they picked as they went. Interestingly there used to be a law that archers killing people during archery practice were not prosecuted with recorded cases of people walking behind the village butts being killed and the archer "let off"

As for golf, not aware of a link to archery, it's blamed for the relative poorer quality of Scottish archers during the border wars with the archers of the north of England dominating most encounters such as Flodden, Dupplin Moor, Halidon Hill etc the used to be laws banning golf and forcing archery practice north of the border IIRC. Football being the distraction of the English

Having said that the best modern style Bowyers in the country are at Mellerstain

CROW act 2000 schedule 2 lists restrictions on activities which cannot be exercised under the rights of access for open air recreation, the only ones that might apply are restrictions on hunting apparatus (which might apply to the bow, but in the context of what you are doing would not)

Hunting with a bow is banned outright in the UK, so there couldn't be a restriction based on that as it is now a sport only as long as you aren't carrying broadheads with a deer tied to pole walking off the hill. Clout or roaming isn't hunting in any form

Wrexham starts with R.

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